David
Brewer is a founding member of the
popular west coast Celtic band,
Molly's Revenge, which was voted
Best Band of 2005 at the Live Oak
Music Festival in Santa Ynez,
California and has performed
nationally and internationally with
highlight appearances at the Chicago
Irish Festival, the University of
Hawaii Concert Series, the Ballarat
Federation Tattoo in Australia, the
Tamar Valley Folk Festival in
Tasmania, twice at the Shanghai
International Music Festival in
China and most recently in 2009 at
Celtic Connections in Glasgow,
Scotland.
A Scottish descendant and native of
Oregon, David discovered traditional
music on public radio at the age of
11. He soon traveled to Scotland to
study with master teachers. On his
own, he has been a featured soloist
at Barra Feis Piping Recital in
Scotland, toured nationally with
Tomaseen Foley’s Celtic Christmas
Show as the featured uilleann piper,
been a featured highland piper with
both the North State and Napa Valley
Symphonies, was piper for a west
coast tour with Scottish super-group
The Old Blind Dogs, was a special
guest of the six-time Grammy winning
group The Chieftains, and was a key
musician for the sound track of the
PBS documentary, “Andrew Jackson,
Good, Evil, and the Presidency”.

Also an avid teacher, David has
taught at many notable workshops
including the Pebble Beach Piping
School,
Sebastopol Celtic Music Festival, &
the Community Music School of Santa
Cruz summer camps.
He is the founder of the St.
Andrew’s Academy concert series; and
has been a guest lecturer on bagpipe
history at UC Santa Cruz. Brewer
continues to teach privately
His students have received accolades
from the National Piping Centre of
Scotland, and others have gone on to
successful solo careers.

David Brewer is unarguably one of
the most energetic and charismatic
performers of the Scottish pipes in
the world today.
His pure joy and passion for playing
is evident at every show.

Studio Musician: David has
been contracted to play pipes, bodhran, and whistles for indie
films, commercials, and most recently the PBS special on Andrew
Jackson. As a solo artist, Brewer appeared three times on the Bruce
Latimer Musical Variety Show aired on San Francisco television,
including a special appearance on the 800th anniversary show. He
has appeared as a guest artist on over a dozen studio albums of
various musical styles, and has composed over 200 original
tunes. He released his first solo album Living Tradition in
2004, featuring several of the tunes he has composed.
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